Retrograde Retrospective Pt. 2: Essays on Spirituality, Art, and Myth
Recap of essays on spirituality, depth psychology, and myth published since May 2024.
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During the August 2024 Mercury Retrograde period, I am taking a break from posting original essays to recover from an intense academic season. Please enjoy this recap of all my essays about myth and depth psychology since May.
May 2024: Rest
I’m sitting in a hot bath on a Monday morning, overcome with awe and gratitude. I recently left my job of 6.5 years, and I have the good fortune of three months of time to rest. Deep, necessary rest that I have cried and …
The Wisdom of Wounds
Note: This essay briefly mentions suicide, terminal dementia, and other themes related to death. Please do what is necessary to care for yourself.
Soft as Water
I’m making peace with crying. I am deeply sensitive, which is a part of my personality that I learned to resent along the way. I do not have thick skin, I am attuned to suffering, and I will cry.
The Threshold
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would …
Who Are Your People?
There’s a common greeting in organizing circles and among Black folks who may be related or know one another’s families that goes, “who are your people?” Those four words ask us to name our kinfolk, who and what…
You Don’t Need Another Octavia Butler Think Piece
You don’t need another Octavia E. Butler think piece. Not from me, anyway. I will spare you from my exuberant stanning this week because there are dozens of Butler enthusiasts who’ve released pieces about her unfinished series of post-apocalyptic novels known as The Parables: